Textile design software to create fabric realistic weaves, knits and prints

min.jpg">Steve Greenberg, President, Pointcarre, North America, joins Stephanie Benedetto and Samanta Cortes in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser.

In this episode:

• CAD textile software, computer aided design, allows almost anyone to design own fabric and print and simulate before end product to see exactly what it would look like
• Loom networking to send immediately to a loom anywhere in the world
• Can see yarns, determine knit and woven structure (more than 4,000)
• Set up gauge correctly, and in correct weave structure
• Working with a print and repeats of the design
• Easy to pick up software if you have basic knowledge
• Different kind of materials, even utilizing silver, want to know attributes of fibers to know how they will react
• Software does costing too
• How this software allows changing business model, cost structuremin.jpg">
• Take any photo of your product, apply grid, then can map and wrap with any fabric/pattern and fully envision the product
• Full Pantone color palette
• People are trying so many new types of stitches and structures
• 3D envisioning software
• Can go right to digital print in tonal ranges, big thing with watercolors
• Doing what you love

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